Dramatic Improvements in US Budget Outlook Shows the Fiscal Cliff was a Mirage

“Over the last three years, the long-term budget outlook (covering 75 years) if current law is followed has improved dramatically. In 2009, the Congressional Budget Office projected that debt held by the public would rise from around 60 percent of GDP to roughly 300 percent of GDP in 75 years. In contrast, in 2012 the CBO has projected that debt will consistently fall—and even be fully paid off by 2070.” Economic Policy Institute

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The End of the Disastrous Voodoo Trickle Down Economics

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Economic Disaster: The Result of Thirty Years of Reagan’s Trickle Down Fascist Economics

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This is Where the United States Government Is Today, as well as Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago

Fascism began in America with the ascendency of President Ronald Reagan. A day after he was sworn into office, the Iranians released the embassy hostages, perhaps and or most likely because a deal had been made between the leaders of Iran and Republican officials to hold on to the hostages to ensure the defeat of President Jimmy Carter. This treason, if it occurred, was a massive move toward fascism. If it didn’t occur, it was a remarkable coincidence. On the other hand, congress made certain that any investigations into the arms for hostages crisis would not look into anything having to do with the case before 1983. That was another strange coincidence.

Reagan’s reign of error included his war against the middle class and the destruction of labor unions.

Fascism in the United States began with Reagan, but it wasn’t completely in charge of both major political parties until the second term, or maybe sometime during the first term, of President Bill Clinton.

One could argue that we do not have a fascist system of government, but then the only argument you could otherwise make is that we have a plutocracy, which is a government of the rich and for the rich. However, in the case of the United States, they’re one and the same. We have them both.

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